About the Author

Timothy Snyder is assistant professor of history at Yale University.

Reviews

"This book is a work of profound scholarship and considerable importance. It represents a highly original approach to a neglected area of Europe - but also has wider implications for all those interested in questions of nationalism and state-building." Timothy Garton Ash, author of The Polish Revolution "This is an excellent book. The research is impressive. Snyder asks the right questions and then delivers." John Micgiel, Columbia University